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by xienze 6mo ago
Like clockwork, every single thread about something AI-related has someone expressing their disgust at passages of LLM-written text. In many cases by the same people who are enthusiastically embracing LLM-generated software. Why don't
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by xienze 6mo ago
> This comment explains absolutely nothing Sure it does. Boys and girls are different. Hence, they receive different treatment, which the OP was originally befuddled by.
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by xienze 6mo ago
This sounds crazy, I know, but perhaps boys and girls are different.
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Obviously you have multiple agents justify why they picked a certain response and then create another agent that picks the solution with the best justification.
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by xienze 6mo ago
> The only drawback I can see is the ecosystem being smaller and less mature. This seems like the _perfect_ use for an LLM: systematically porting over as much of the "ecosystem" to Typst as possible. Is anyone doing that?
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by xienze 6mo ago
... And labor and materials?
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by xienze 6mo ago
It's in a section called "Why I’m still not afraid for my career." The implication here is software engineer jobs are still safe despite basically free labor/material being available to do said jobs because he thinks oth
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by xienze 6mo ago
And that includes materials, labor, and will be there the instant you need them?
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by xienze 6mo ago
> And that feels about right to me. I can plumb my house if I watch enough YouTube videos on plumbing. I would rather hire a plumber. I don't buy this argument at all. I think if we could pay $20/month to a service that would s
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by xienze 6mo ago
It has less to do with reinforcing stereotypes and more with fooling customers into thinking the company they're trying to get support from isn't so fucking cheap that they won't spring for tech support workers in a first wor
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by xienze 6mo ago
> But there is no justification for providing voter roll data to the wide public in a way that is machine readable. Why not? It's considered public information, just like political donation records.
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by xienze 6mo ago
> Both kinds of students will exist. Yeah and I'm betting there's gonna be a whole lot more "press the button to have all your work done for you" students than "work hard" students. FFS even before all this
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by xienze 6mo ago
That's not what I said. I said system design is not the exclusive domain of humans, so anyone thinking they possess some special knowledge of system design that an LLM isn't capable of obtaining are fooling themselves.
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by xienze 6mo ago
> The way of using these tools is not to one-shot your slide deck This line of thinking IMO is hopelessly naive. Yes, the responsible way to use AI and perhaps the way _you_ use it is to do some formatting/cleaning up/enhanceme
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by xienze 6mo ago
> I take the prompts to the AI so the manager doesn't have to! I have prompting skills!! This is honestly the mindset of the people on here who proudly proclaim that they haven't written a line of code in six months and are exc
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by xienze 6mo ago
> Are they just copy/pasting their entire ticket description into Claude Code and having it iterate until they land on something that works? There's also the pattern of creating an army of agents to solve problems. Human write
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by xienze 6mo ago
The other funny part is the same folks who go on about "software developers should unionize!!!" conveniently forget that one of the things unions make sure to do is resist attempts to automate away their jobs.
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by xienze 6mo ago
Software developers themselves share a lot of the blame for this AI stuff. They geeked out so hard about the exciting possibilities of the tech that they didn't stop to think that the managers and CEOs would happily cut developers out
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by xienze 6mo ago
> Trades are the future. Yep, as long as you don't mind getting undercut by illegal immigrants.
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by xienze 6mo ago
> Why not run simple inference on actual turns out of band, and if abuse is detected, adjust the quotas semi-retroactively. I suppose because running inference of any kind is a helluva lot more demanding than running a regex and less det
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by xienze 6mo ago
Dario wants to replace you with AI as well. Don't be fooled into thinking he's your friend because he said no to Trump that one time. I'll remind you that Musk used to be the left's hero not too long ago.
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by xienze 6mo ago
First, the key phrase here is "end game." Whatever you're looking at now isn't where prices will be in short order. Second, it seems a hard to believe that hundreds of billions of dollars would be spent and untold number
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by xienze 6mo ago
Not the parent, but the way developers are basically trying to create entire development "teams" consisting of multiple agents that work around the clock using the latest, most expensive models (naturally) lends itself to burning
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by xienze 6mo ago
> The economics is spending a few hundred bucks on software for an IC you're already paying over ten grand a month Let's be fair here, the endgame is not "a few hundred bucks a month." Not for how much money has been
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by xienze 6mo ago
I think there's "sort of" a moat for non-Chinese vendors. As much as people distrust the US right now, I think deep down inside everyone knows that the second you let a Chinese provider do inference on your codebase they&#x27
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by xienze 6mo ago
I imagine the calculus changes a little bit when you've invested hundreds of billions (trillions?) of dollars in a relatively short period of time. Priority number one is probably getting that money back. I think the fact that provider
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by xienze 6mo ago
> If the unit-economics work out and they can sell $0.99 of tokens for $1.00 I think the margins have to be a lot higher than that in order to give investors the return they're expecting, to continue the never-ending training treadm
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by xienze 6mo ago
> Inference is cheap Maybe from the perspective of traditional, turn-based chat. But when you start having developers command an army of agents that work around the clock, those cheap tokens start adding up fast...
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by xienze 6mo ago
It's gonna be interesting to see how this plays out. Usually a tech rugpull like this lasts a number of years. And this sort of has, but the agentic stuff has really only caught on like wildfire in the last, I dunno, six months or so.
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by xienze 6mo ago
> You cannot simply transfer Magic the Gathering to overseas workers and expect any kind of usable result. If you fed all the lore into an LLM and trained diffusion models on all the artwork I bet you could keep the train running from In

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